Life And Immortal

Distillation of life is the object of Indian philosophy as if it is the object of Chinese philosophy. I believe Chinese philosophy which is idyllic and emotional bears some likeness to Indian philosophy which is idyllic also instead of Western philosophy which is logic and scientific. Their ontology and theory of knowledge revolve round one centre which is to show loving care for life and make better the state of life. However, Chinese philosophy and Indian philosophy use two different ways about the problem of sublimating life so that two different cultures appear. It is said that "Sheng" stands for the idea of Confucianism and "WuSheng" stands for the idea of Buddhism, which represents my opinions on Chinese philosophy and Indian philosophy. Chinese philosophy comes true the distillation of life by positive ways and Indian philosophy realizes it by negative ways. I research the similarity and difference of the two ways which all can give us peace and comfortable.Vedantism is orthodox Indian philosophy which stands for the spirit of Indian and Confucianism is orthodox philosophy in ancient China. So that I compare the two schools which appear the distinctive features of Chinese culture and Indian culture to the core. I choose Shankara’s thought as the miniature of Vedantism, who was the greatest thinker in Indian in middle century and the comprehensive expression of Vedantism and effecting Indian philosophy to this day. For researching the thought of Shankara, I have to touch upon the thought of Gaudapda. Shankara who was Gaudapda’s student’s student was deeply effected by Gaudapda and was imbued with the same spirit of Gaudapda. I treat Shankara’s thought as subject and Gaudapda’s thought as accessory in my paper. Neo-Confucianism which is a school full of philosophic property in Confucianism likes Vedantism in ontology、in world view、in mental epistemology、in the way of cultivating、in structure of philosophy system. So that I choose ZhuXi’s thought as the delegate of Confucianism. ZhuXi’s thought evolved from the thought of ChengHao and ChengYi. ZhuXi’s thought is integral whole with the thought of ChengHao and ChengYi like Shankara’s thought is integral whole with Gaudapda’s thought. So that I adopt ChengHao and ChengYi’s thought in my paper also. The two schools clearly have two different orientations of towards realistic life and towards illusive afterlife but they all care life itself. I compare them in ontology、mind and cultivating way three fields because I believe a kind of philosophy is a kind of life and I need the three fields for appearing the whole system. Neo-Confucianism and Vedantism construct Li and Brahman as celestial noumenon in the part of ontology; Neo-Confucianism and Vedantism confirm noumenon is in individual in the part of theory of disposition; Neo-Confucianism and Vedantism take different way for finding noumenon in the part of theory of self-cultivation. When fusing with noumenon is realized, Neo-Confucianism and Vedantism achieve their objects——fusing with heaven and fusing with Brahman. This paper goes round noumenon and finding noumenon and researches the similarity and difference between Neo-Confucianism and Vedantism in the idea of nature、the idea of human、the idea of mind、the idea of body、the idea of soul、 the idea of death and so on.